- Industry: Musical Equipment
- Number of terms: 919
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- Company Profile:
Steinway & Sons, Inc. engages in designing and crafting pianos for concert artists, ensembles, and physicists worldwide. The company was founded in 1853 and is based in Long Island City, New York.
Electronic musical instruments that electronically reproduce authentic piano sounds.
Industry:Musical equipment
A scale design in which the ends of the strings (usually muted with cloth) are allowed to vibrate, adding tonal color.
Industry:Musical equipment
A complete section of tree trunk that has been sawed into thin pieces of veneer and is shipped as one unit.
Industry:Musical equipment
The mixture of iron ore and composite materials that is melted together and poured into a mold to create a piano's metal frame; also known as cast iron.
Industry:Musical equipment
Pianos originally made for and the sold in Japan, then later sold as used pianos in America.
Industry:Musical equipment
The mallet that strikes the piano strings, made of very dense felt wrapped around a wooden core.
Industry:Musical equipment
The process of reshaping the hammers and removing worn layers of felt.
Industry:Musical equipment
An alternate name for the iron frame fastened to the piano's inner rim to which the strings are attached; it enables the strings to be held under tremendous tension.
Industry:Musical equipment
A stringed keyboard instrument, forerunner of the piano, first described and still in use.
Industry:Musical equipment
